Word: basins
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Phillips and Continental each own 37.5 per cent in a consortium made October 1972 to explore a sedimentary basin off Namibia's shore. The lease concession covers nine years and entitles the South African government to a certain percentage of oil production and royalty fees. South African exploration represented less than 1 per cent of the total exploration budget for Phillips...
Still smarting from its first setback of the season, the Radcliffe crew returns to the friendly waters of the Charles River basin today, hoping to bounce back in to the win column in a seven-team regatta this morning...
...There they go! Someone just capsized! It was very spectacular! It was remarkable; you should have seen that," Dave Brownlee exclaimed yesterday as he told The Crimson about this year's sailing team. Brownlee, a varsity sailor, was in Harvard's new sailing pavilion overlooking the Charles River Basin as he spoke...
Downriver, the damage was greater. In Mississippi, the hardest-hit state, another two inches of rain fell on the Yazoo River Basin, making a total of 51 inches in the past six months. The soaked earth could hold no more; at Vicksburg, where the Yazoo River meets the Mississippi, the water reached 7.4 feet above flood stage, the highest in 36 years. Farm land and equipment in the surrounding Delta lay under eight feet of water in some places, making the recovery and repair of equipment almost impossible on many small farms. Trembling cattle huddled on islands of high ground...
Overcoming blustery winds, choppy conditions, and first-race jitters, the Radcliffe crew burst into the Spring rowing season Saturday, outclassing an inexperienced Syracuse squad in both four-and eight-oared competition on the Charles River Basin...